South African Youth Choir, Cape Town City Ballet to perform at Moët & Chandon's golden tree lighting ceremony

As the countdown to the festive season begins, it's worth celebrating one of the season’s most iconic symbols: the Christmas tree. And while cities from Belgium to Brazil are famous for constructing trees made from porcelain to those that float, few are more awe-inspiring than Cape Town’s grand Moët & Chandon Golden Tree.

Sitting at an impressive four-storeys high and built with over 1,800 recycled champagne bottles collected from all over South Africa, the Moët & Chandon Golden Tree is wrapped in a shimmering gold ribbon created using over 2,000 discs. Once the sun sets, visitors can look forward to an impressive lighting display, with the 230 metres of LED lights individually programmed to illuminate in sync with themed festive music that most attendees will most definitely recognise!.

This year, Moët & Chandon has also created the ‘Moët Music Box’ which will allow visitors the opportunity to personally interact with the Moët & Chandon Golden Tree – by simply turning the music box lever they’ll activate a magical 40-second lighting show, bringing the tree to life.

So gather friends and family on Thursday 29 November and make your way down to the Silo district and ring in the festive season in style!

The Moët Golden Tree will be situated in the Silo District until Sunday, 6 January 2019.